What sort of a world is it, I ask you, in which time peculates the gold from hair and the crimson from all lips, and the north wind carries away the glow and glory and contentment of October, and a driveling old magician steals a lovely girl?

The hazard posed is compounded by this dumping of toxic chemical waste on productive agricultural land, which peculates into the groundwater sources of water wells with villagers reporting a rash of skin diseases and respiratory problems.